We have bought and sold 1,905 CNC machines. That is our own record, not a catalog listing — so when we quote your machine, we are pricing something we have traded before.
We have 476 CNC machines listed right now, so we know what the market is paying this month.
Get an offer on your CNC machine
Tell us what you have and how to reach you, and we will come back with a route and a number — usually the same day. The make and model of your CNC machine are enough to start.
Why sell your CNC machine to KD Machinery
One make runs through our CNC book far more than any other: 620 of the machines we have traded are Haas, against 127 Doosan and 81 Mazak. That matters to you in a specific way. A Haas sells quickly and predictably because every buyer already knows what it is worth, so the useful question is not whether yours will sell but what it is worth this month. Everything else on the list is thinner and more variable, and that is where a machine gets underpriced by somebody guessing. The other thing we look at before almost anything else is how the chips came off it. 681 of ours have a chip conveyor and 315 run an auger, and a machine that made chips for a living without ever clearing them properly tells you more about how it was maintained than the hour meter does.
What we buy
Machining centers vertical and horizontal, CNC lathes and turning centers with and without live tooling, multi-axis mills, Swiss and screw machines, routers, EDM, grinders and gantry machines. Single machines, complete cells with their tooling and workholding, and whole shops. Under power or already disconnected.
What decides what a used CNC machine is worth
- The make and how deep its market is. 620 of ours are Haas, which is the most liquid machine on this list; anything rarer takes a buyer who specifically wants it, and that changes the timetable rather than the price.
- The control, its generation, and whether it is still supported. This decides who can run the machine on day one and whether parts exist, and it separates two otherwise identical machines more sharply than age does.
- Chip and coolant handling, which 681 of ours address with a conveyor and 315 with an auger. It is also the fastest read on how the machine was looked after.
- Spindle condition and any rebuild history, with paperwork. A documented rebuild is worth more than a low hour count nobody can verify.
- Tooling, holders and workholding. These are sized to your machine, they are worth real money, and they are the single thing sellers most often forget to mention.
- Whether the options on the spec sheet were actually enabled on the control. A fourth axis that was fitted but never licensed is not a fourth axis to the buyer.
- Whether it is still under power. A machine that can be demonstrated cutting is a different sale from one already on a truck.
How to sell a CNC machine
A CNC machine sells on evidence rather than description, and the evidence takes an afternoon to gather:
- Cut a test part, measure it, and keep the part, the program and the measurements together.
- Photograph the control screen showing hours and the enabled option list.
- Clear the chip conveyor and coolant tank and photograph them clean.
- Inventory the tooling, holders and workholding, and decide what is included before you list rather than during the negotiation.
- Note the control generation and whether it is still supported, because a buyer will ask and a straight answer moves the sale along.
Selling a CNC machine: common questions
I have a mix of machines rather than one. Is that harder?
It is usually easier and generally worth more. A working cell or a whole shop sells to a buyer who wants capacity rather than a particular machine, and it saves them assembling one. Tell us what is on the floor and we will tell you whether it goes better as a package, split into groups, or through the auction side.
The control is old and no longer supported. Does that end it?
No, but it changes who buys it and it should change what you expect. Some buyers specifically want a control their people already know. Others will price in a retrofit. What hurts most is discovering it late, so say the control generation up front and let the machine be priced honestly against it.
Do you only want Haas machines?
No. Haas leads what we have traded by a wide margin because that is what the market holds, not because it is what we accept. We have handled over two hundred makes. A less common machine takes a more specific buyer, which is a question of timetable rather than whether it sells.
The machine is already disconnected and in storage. Can you still take it?
Yes, and we buy machines in that state regularly. It does cost something, because a machine nobody can see running carries a risk the buyer prices in. If it can be powered up for an afternoon that is usually worth doing. If it cannot, we still buy it, and photographs of the spindle, ways and control go a long way.